Top 100 Vivek Quotes
#2. Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college.
Vivek Wadhwa
#3. I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#4. I have to be careful when I'm around sweets.
Vivek Murthy
#5. It's a secret deal. On some days, the sun shines bright on you. On some days, you've got to shine brighter than the sun.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#6. The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
Vivek Wadhwa
#7. When I travel, people say 'Yet another place in this world'. But I see 'Another world inside every place I go
Vivek Thangaswamy
#8. Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#9. The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.
Vivek Wadhwa
#10. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.
Vivek Shanbhag
#11. Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#12. There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#13. If freedom is the basis of life, then love is the basis of real freedom, the capacity to love without bonds is the freedom of the highest order.
Vivek Mehta
#14. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.
Vivek Pereira
#15. We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#16. In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.
Vivek Wadhwa
#17. The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#18. One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.
Vivek Wadhwa
#19. If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#20. If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#21. The best things in life are FREE and available in abundance..." said the Master.
Vivek Rajan Vivek
#22. We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.
Vivek Wadhwa
#23. My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#24. An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#25. Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.
Vivek Wadhwa
#26. All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#27. The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.
Vivek Wadhwa
#28. I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole.
Vivek Wadhwa
#29. Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#30. Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done
Vivek Naik
#31. I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.
Vivek Wadhwa
#32. What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge.
Vivek Sahni
#35. Of one inalienable truth I am certain: together, standing shoulder to shoulder, women are the greatest force of nature. I also know that when we cease to dilute our power in the name of politics, religion, and male attention, we will be introduced to the best version of collective self.
Vivek Wadhwa
#36. Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.
Vivek Wadhwa
#37. In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.
Vivek Wadhwa
#38. A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
Vivek Wadhwa
#39. The Big Investments of tomorrow need not be on the Stock Exchange. They need to be in our schools.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#40. Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#41. Getting things done is not always about managing time; It is about finding that magical time of the day when you work at your best level
Vivek Naik
#42. Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
Vivek Wadhwa
#43. This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#44. When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
Vivek Wadhwa
#45. An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
Vivek Wadhwa
#46. there's a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I
Vivek Shanbhag
#47. It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.
Vivek Pereira
#48. People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#49. To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#50. Most of your struggles with managing your time are due to the self- limiting beliefs. Change your Mindset and you will be able to do lot more in lot less time
Vivek Naik
#51. The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.
Vivek Wadhwa
#52. When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.
Vivek Wadhwa
#53. Only big goals will provide you with the motivational fuel. This is the fuel required to get over all those obstacles and temporary failures. This is the reason why you wake up and look forward to the day ahead.
Vivek Naik
#54. We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#55. If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#56. Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.
Vivek Wadhwa
#57. A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.
Vivek Murthy
#58. I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.
Vivek Wadhwa
#59. Life is a random sequence of actions and reactions of people's preferences and decisions they take to achieve their preferences.
Vivek Thangaswamy
#60. Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother
Vivek Thangaswamy
#61. If the UN has not failed in maintaining world peace or bilateral relations between nations, it has definitely not succeeded either.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#62. Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time
Vivek Naik
#63. The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
Vivek Wadhwa
#65. Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.
Vivek Shanbhag
#66. Sometimes people ask me why am I so excited about what I do. My reply mostly is, You see one celebrity and get excited. I see several hundred thousand future celebrities, change makers, and world movers, everyday.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#67. In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.
Vivek Wadhwa
#68. The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.
Vivek Wadhwa
#69. Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
Vivek Wadhwa
#70. There are no shortcut to any place worth going
Vivek Singh
#71. The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.
Vivek Wadhwa
#72. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
#73. You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#74. He recognized that she and he could hold hands and kiss in most places and that landlords wouldn't think twice about renting to them. But queer spoke to all the other spaces and moments his body and heart didn't fit into.
Vivek Shraya
#75. I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#76. My dream is to ensure or create a platform for every single kid, a platform that would enable them to level up in their lives and to achieve to their full potential.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#77. We must first get over the myth that older workers can't innovate.
Vivek Wadhwa
#78. Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
Vivek Wadhwa
#79. If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.
Vivek Wadhwa
#80. No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
Vivek Wadhwa
#81. Bayaweaver Home offering the sizes of the flats in different-2 sizes like 1263-1859 sq. feet.
Vivek
#82. Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.
Vivek Wadhwa
#83. During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.
Vivek Wadhwa
#84. My weakness is sweets. I like bread pudding and cheesecake in particular.
Vivek Murthy
#85. We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#86. We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#87. We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#88. Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#89. Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.
Vivek Shanbhag
#90. Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.
Vivek Shanbhag
#91. Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#92. The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
Vivek Wadhwa
#93. The kinds of people we meet in our life have a huge impact on the kind of person we become.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#94. Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.
Vivek Wadhwa
#95. Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.
Vivek Wadhwa
#96. Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.
Vivek Wadhwa
#97. it's not we who control money, it's the money that controls us. When there's only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us.
Vivek Shanbhag
#98. Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#99. I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#100. You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.
Vivek Wadhwa
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